By contrast with these three works, Stephen Roberts's Sinfonia for Brass, Percussion and Strings, ostensibly a personal view of American minimalism, was all the more disappointing: vulgar in its sheer volume, yet insubstantial in content.
It was a piece of sheer inventive genius; yet it was also just a mechanical copy of something nature did.
Its sheer intensity might yet generate precisely the sort of vileness and volatility that once purported to justify disenfranchisement of the terrace culture.
So much of what they did was done, initially, for themselves alone, sometimes for sheer amusement, and yet it has had a lasting legacy in the world outside.
In the middle, power is diffused by dint of sheer numbers, and yet it is in the middle that power is aggregated and gets used most effectively.
Yet, sheer pleasure counts for something, and those of us who have known the experience of watching projected prints and feeling the totemic power of their fragility ought to preserve at least the idea of it.
Your ears are seamlessly taken into another realm, a place that's both ethereal in its sheer, rarefied beauty yet grounded in the real world of instruments and voices.
The result is a very watchable study of a stateless community, subsisting on dreams and memories of a lost homeland, and a generation of young men who have no prospects, sometimes drawn to jihadism out of sheer personal frustration; yet they are often quite as critical of the Palestinian leadership as everything else.
The sheer number of yet uncharacterized proteins implies that a lot of phosphorylation motifs remained undetected so far.
The Debussy, in contrast, is based in sheer pictorialism, yet it may have served as a model in its evolutionary development of themes.
